uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
This is a risk of growing up in a family that is too wealthy. If those with money (or the ear of the moneyed folk) think somethings wrong with you, there are experts that will recommend kidnap brainwashing camps where they send you and they’re very good at convincing rich people they can fix their child.
It is the stuff nightmare fuel horror stories are made of, except it really happens all the fucking time.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s almost like these people saw gay conversion camps and decided the potential market was too small so they wanted to torture teenagers for any form of willfulness
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I’m pretty sure the grift plays on rich Grandpa being aghast because rich grandson is his own person (e.g. doesn’t want to be a doctor or join the family business). And here comes this snappy looking salesman saying we can fix him for a price and make him the prodigy you want.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Partly but I recommend Joe Nobody vs Elan school for a view into a different way it went. It’s a really rough read, but his parents were advised by a judge to send him because he got caught with pot. It’s absolutely both of these situations.
And rich grandpa may be horrified about that, but it could be any number of things including that the kid is “too spoiled”.